Salem Superior Court Judge Howard Whitehead, on Sept. 6, 2011, dismissed some of the charges in an asbestos lawsuit involving 44-year-old Luis Dias, The Salem News reports.
Judge Whitehead dismissed charges against David Harder Jr. and Julie Rosati, the owners of…
Albany International Corp. was defending against 4,800 asbestos claims as of April 18, 2011, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2011.
This compares with about 5,158 such claims as of Feb.…
Albany International Corp. is named both as a direct defendant and as the “successor in interest” to asbestos cases related to Mount Vernon Mills.
The Company acquired certain assets from Mount Vernon in 1993. Certain plaintiffs allege injury caused by asbestos-containing…
Albany International Corp.’s Brandon Drying Fabrics, Inc. affiliate was defending against 7,876 asbestos claims as of April 18, 2011, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2011.
This compares with 7,868 such…
The Cheshire County Court in New Hampshire indicted Lourdes Ramirez-Crucellas, a language professor at Keene State College, for illegally disposing of asbestos waste into KSC dumpsters, The Equinox reports.
According to Mary Jensen, coordinator of sustainability programs and recycling for KSC,…
The Supreme Court of New Hampshire reversed the ruling of the New Hampshire Compensation Appeals Board (CAB), which denied George D. Gamas recovery under the Workers’ Compensation Law.
This is an Appeal of George D. Gamas (New Hampshire Compensation Appeals Board).
Judges…
New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly A. Ayotte and Special Agent-in-Charge Michael Hubbard of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division announce that, on June 22, 2009, the Cheshire County Grand Jury returned two indictments against Lourdes Ramirez-Crusellas of Keene,…
The New Hampshire Supreme Court, on May 1, 2009, reversed a ruling denying George Gamas, a former Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. brewery worker, benefits for an asbestos-related lung condition, the Associated Press reports.
Mr. Gamas worked at the Merrimack, N.H., brewery for…
White Mountains Re Group, Ltd.’s asbestos-related loss and loss adjustment expense reserve were a gross of US$173.3 million during the year ended Dec. 31, 2008, compared with a gross of US$181.9 million during the year ended Dec. 31, 2007.
The Company’s…
The Supreme Court of New Hampshire affirmed a trial court’s ruling, which sustained an assignment of pre-liquidation legal fees in a case filed by (SSGC) Sheiness, Scott, Grossman & Cohn, L.L.P.
The case is styled In the Matter of the Liquidation…